Schizophrenia Articles

Is My Mother Mentally Ill?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
I am here because I'm losing hope and I'm running out of options. I'm here because u have many reasons to believe my mother is a paranoid schizophrenic. She is a single 56 year old woman with 4 children. Three boys and me, the youngest ...

Am I Borderline?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Thursday, May 9th, 2013
I might be suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder, but I don't know. It might be Bipolar Disorder as well. I have a lot of mood swings, that can last a week at least, and sometimes a month. My moods varies between depression/anxiety with extreme suicidal ...

Mother is Deteriorating and I Need Help

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Hello my name is luke, my mother is going down hill fast including anti social and chucking items away and not eating she has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and other things in life and it is getting to the point where i'm ripping my hair ...

Weird Behaviors And Emotional Hypersensitivity

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, May 4th, 2013
I had the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia with depressive affects and I am still on medications, but I am seeking help to stop my weird behaviors as well as emotional hypersensitivity. I like being requested to go for counseling/ therapy/ medical interviews/ check-ups/ pressured into ...

Adopted Daughter May Have Reactive Attachment Disorder

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
My 8 year old adopted daughter has had 4 different therapists including neurotherapy. She has yet to have someone really diagnose or help us with exactly her problems. She was adopted at 2 years old and spent the first 2 years of her life ...

Getting Help without Insurance

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at age 15 but the doctors at the mental hospital did not even bother to look into the problem very well they just diagnosed me after my 2nd admission because i was hearing voices and seeing demons in the dark. Now ...

Bipolar II or Schizophrenia?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, April 7th, 2013
I hospitalized three times for attempted suicide. said bipolar 2 disorder, on meds for schizophrenia: I had what i term to be some sort of break down four years ago. I believed that the school system, my friends and family were trying to take my ...

Son with Schizophrenia

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, March 31st, 2013
Son being content with no outside life ;no work no friends does not go anywhere/ He was diagnosed at 18 with schizophrenia.. he could not hold a job down.. he self medicated got caught went to prison and since prison no meds he is quite ...

How to Help My Paranoid Sister?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, March 24th, 2013
My sister is a married 42 year old mother of 2 girls. All of her life is has been a bit paranoid. A few years ago, she began taking drugs and drinking. When she got a full time jib, things seemed to return to normal. ...

Scared of Myself

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, March 17th, 2013
For about two years I have sort of thought that people can hear the thoughts in my head and recently I also feel like God, Jesus, demons and the devil talk to me in my head and I talk with them. I have started to ...

How to Handle Mentally Ill Relatives?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
I married into my husband's family who is relatively closed about mental illness. I now know his two sisters (both over 45) have schizophrenia. My mother in law is 76 and keeps them home. One daughter can sometimes be violent and the other daughter constantly ...

Could This Be Schizophrenia?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, February 24th, 2013
I have been experiencing most of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, except for depression, but I appear depressed to other people. I have some positive symptoms as well, like paranoia (which I've had for years) and acute senses. I'm more sensitive to noises, and on ...